[William A. Baurle]

Michael, that is one of his best poems.

I wrote a little poem about an imaginary exchange between Robert Browning's ghost and Stevens in a restaurant in 1935. The poem plays on both poets' use of certain exclamatory words, like Browning's "zooks!" (Fra Lippo Lippi), for example, and Stevens' use of things like "huff and hum" and "hullabaloo", and the infamous "Such tink and tank and tunk-a-tunk-tunk."

But, we can't post our own poems in discussion threads. Ask me if you want me to send you a link to it. You might enjoy it, in light of this discussion. I've thought about posting the poem in Metrical, but I'm not terribly interested in asking for critique of it. Decisions, decisions...

I think we need a thread on Browning. Have you read Browning much? If you haven't you certainly must. Don't let yourself die without at least tapping into Fra Lippo Lippi and The Ring and the Book. Sordello you can miss, since no-one understood it except the author, though I love it, and for the same reasons I love The Comedian as the Letter C.